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Topic: Faster transactions? (Read 924 times)

legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1015
August 31, 2013, 01:31:52 PM
#6
How do you work out when the next retarget is going to be?
legendary
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1009
August 31, 2013, 12:55:43 PM
#5
I've heard predictions that as ASICs roll out the hash rate is going to double every 4-6 weeks for the next two years. If that hold up the block times are going to be consistently short for a while.
legendary
Activity: 1008
Merit: 1001
Let the chips fall where they may.
August 31, 2013, 04:46:33 AM
#4
Actually, there is an upgrade going on: the GPU-> ASIC transition.

The network hash rate is increasing so fast that the next difficulty adjustment is going to be huge.
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Estimated percent change in difficulty this period | 23.33054 % based on data since last change | 39.67409 % based on data for last three days

So blocks are coming about 23% faster now. (or 40% faster, depending how you count.)

The increase has got to level out eventually, but there is supposed to be a lot of hardware arriving in the fall.
sr. member
Activity: 518
Merit: 250
August 31, 2013, 04:32:24 AM
#3
Did I miss something lately?

All of my transactions the last few days have been extremely fast. I send an amount and it's nearly an instant confirmation. I was wondering if there was some recent upgrade in the blockchain or something that is speeding things up?

No you are just getting lucky, and probably catching it right before a miner mines the block.

Oh nice. Cheers for the info.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1000
August 31, 2013, 04:29:49 AM
#2
Did I miss something lately?

All of my transactions the last few days have been extremely fast. I send an amount and it's nearly an instant confirmation. I was wondering if there was some recent upgrade in the blockchain or something that is speeding things up?

No you are just getting lucky, and probably catching it right before a miner mines the block.
sr. member
Activity: 518
Merit: 250
August 31, 2013, 04:13:31 AM
#1
Did I miss something lately?

All of my transactions the last few days have been extremely fast. I send an amount and it's nearly an instant confirmation. I was wondering if there was some recent upgrade in the blockchain or something that is speeding things up?
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